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To: Twotone

My interpretation of such stories (not that you should care) is that they aren’t at all good. I am not saying it didn’t happen, only that I think it has nothing to do with heaven, or a heavenly spirit, or God. Somehow people tell stories like this (true or not) and feel comforted, I would feel no comfort at all from such an event.


38 posted on 10/27/2009 12:04:08 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: Scythian

I guess it all depends on one’s frame of reference. We were not raised in a church. My parents felt that such beliefs are best decided on in adulthood. They both had unhappy memories of being dragged to the Methodist church. So we basically believe in God & an afterlife, but are ‘open’ to what else is there. So this experience does tend to validate at least part of our beliefs.

My mother had her own peculiar experience as a young woman. For a series of weeks (like ten?) she would have a dream of a horrible death - like a child suffocated in a refrigerator. Then some days after there would be a story in the newspaper with identical circumstances she’d dreamed. No clue as to why the dreams started or stopped. No comfort in that sort of thing at all!


40 posted on 10/27/2009 12:13:36 PM PDT by Twotone
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